Cayden's tadpole squirms.

This guy was on the ship, and he has an authoritarian guest in his skull as well. 

Cayden gives him a little wave.

He's definitely recognised the feeling of the tadpole too.

"Well met. It's always good to see more people chipping into help."

"I try my best. --Cayden Cailean. I'm from a different planet, I fell into a portal and wound up here. I stab things."

He smiles. "I am Wyll. I must say, that's quite impressive. I've only had one interplanetary trip this tenday."

"Where'd you go?"

"I was in the Hells, hunting the devil Karlach. When the ship came, she fled to it, I pursued--" he gestures. "Here I am, with an unwelcome passenger in my head."

"Judging by the fact that you still have a passenger, I assume this castle doesn't have any way of removing them."

"Their best healer was meant to be returning." He gestures at the other set of adventurers while trying to not look like he is doing that. "I haven't spoken with his apprentice, Nettie, yet."

"My friends and I all have passengers-- could we wait around here until you talk to Nettie?"

"You could come in and talk to her with me.  I can't imagine Zevlor wouldn't let you in after your help."

The middle aged armoured tiefling walks up, and he must be Zevlor. "Indeed I will. I wouldn't turn away anyone who chose to help us."

(He is very obviously a paladin.)

Cayden hates paladins. They're so judgmental. But he can Do His Best To Be Tolerant. 

"Thank you!"

Now he and his party can go inside the gate.

Inside the gates, there's a grassed area. The adventurers and one of the wall tieflings are having an animated argument about the location of, and their responsibility for,  someone called Halsin.

Past the grassed area is the cave itself. It's pretty crowded. There's far more people in here than there's meant to be. There's a significant chunk who are wearing druidic garb, but the majority of people here are road weary tieflings.

A group siblings argue about leaving. 

Some children are running around playing a hiding game, while another set are practising sword drills.

Down a set of stairs, there's the sound of ritual chanting.

Cayden is going to be good and wait to find out if they're going to see Nettie before he goes to play swords with the little kids.

Wyll is heading towards the chanting, which seems to be where Nettie will be?

They are all being watched so intently by the kids.

Cayden somersaults into a leg split handstand and then walks on his hands for a bit. For the kids. 

The kids love this. 

Wyll is smiling. "I take it you were an entertainer in another life."

"I like the kind of fighting where you don't get hit better than the kind of fighting where you get hit and you're good at taking it, and this has side benefits."

"They're certainly good side benefits."

As they head down the stairs towards the chanting, they also get closer to an argument.

"She's just a child--"

"She's a thief, hellspawn."

Cayden doesn't have to ask questions about who he wants to stab in this particular argument. 

(But he's Not Going To. Probably.)

At the bottom of the stairs is a group of tieflings facing off against a group of druids and a bear (who may also be a druid.)

A tiefling woman sounds closer to tears. "At least let us go see her."

"What's going on here?"

"We caught one of the tieflings--"

"My daughter--"

"Stealing the idol of Silvanus."

"Isn't that Zevlor guy in charge here? Why are you arresting a kid?"